Blackbody v.2

A six chapter conjecture on the mental struggle of striving for the best noise floor

  1. Do I need it?
  2. Beginnings: some pre-history about earliest experimentation
  3. Ok, too much for me, I'm out!
  4. New Blackbody concept!
  5. Solar Wind
  6. Summary of the theory

Ok, too much for me, I'm out!


This information got through to our customers, many of whom said that they simply did not have the room and luxury to manage this physically. Some had gone so far as to build custom stands to hold the Blackbodies in various difficult places. Still, this strange angle issue was an impenetrable obstacle for some. It did not mean their Blackbody was not effective. It just meant that we revealed that there might have been more to have been had, yet they may not have been reaping the greatest possible benefits from their existing unit(s) due to the physical limitations of their setup (no shelf space, wrong angle).



Two steps forward, three steps back!


But now we are at a point where we have no working theory as to why placing the Blackbody 90 degrees from the local flux angle of the Earth's magnetic field should be so effective. The only thing that presents itself is that we are in effect pointing the Blackbody's face towards the direction of the star Polaris. This is the non-rotating portion of the sky when viewed from the constantly rotating Earth's surface.

Also, as steel is used internally in the Blackbody product, it came to our disappointment to realize that, though the Blackbody is in fact very effective in its unique spectral reflective traits, if it contains steel, which has high magnetic permeability compared to air, and if it's best possible placement is along the natural magnetic flux lines, aren't we in effect just setting up some small amount of additional magnetic flux concentration somewhere near the system?



Does not compute...


Thus, regardless of effectiveness, this presented three major challenges:

(1) Challenging for most to set up physically in the known best possible configuration.

(2) A newly suspected dual function as Blackbody radiator as well as nothing more than a magnetic flux concentrator, which any piece of iron does.

(3) Forcing us to inform customers that buying multiple units means they will not be able to be used in the most effective way possible unless they rearrange their domestic sound systems, often times requiring new furniture. WAF in seriously foreboding territory.

This led us in 2013 to eventually end production of this product and to devote our attention to other matters of sonic performance. For the time being.

We let this journey of discovery rest for a while. Sometimes the pot must be left to simply simmer on its own. Something told me that some day new answers may come. After all, the effects are powerful and weird! Obviously there was something we did not yet know.

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  1. Do I need it?
  2. Beginnings: some pre-history about earliest experimentation
  3. Ok, too much for me, I'm out!
  4. New Blackbody concept!
  5. Solar Wind
  6. Summary of the theory